In FL each clip copy is a proxy to the same midi sequence. I don’t have to bounce a single sound unless I need to, like when the sound is dependent on it’s horizontal position in the sequencer, and I want to move some stuff about but preserve the sound it had.Īnother thought about the Reason sequencer, I think it benefits progressive/non-repetitive music best. My rack has grown so big at times that scrolling up and down it takes ages with the mouse-wheel. But when using anything that’s already initialised, it is scaleable smooth operation. I think there’s some algorithm that runs in linear time that has to iterate the tracks and do something or other internally. I can literally use thousands of effects and it never start lagging out The only time it lags out is when you enable automation on some knob, or add a new track. I recently wanted to use Gross-beat, and just on the off-chance searched for a 64-bit version, and lo and behold, I downloaded it from their website, and it just worked straight out the box in reason. This is on an overclocked i7 7700k, too.Ī big part of that I think is that many of the plugins in FL were 32-bit, and had to be bridged in order to communicate with 64-bit FL. I dreaded the process of bouncing stuff, and disabling all of the mixer channel effects to speed it up. That was a major problem for me in FL, it was limiting my tack complexity because of performance issues. Reason 10’s last major update patch massively increased efficiency. But if there are a lot of frequencies going on, it’s going to struggle. Depending on the sound, it usually sounds very good. However, Reason also has the ability to stretch/compress audio clips and keep pitch. There is an official rack extension that allows real-time, automatable, pitch-shifting +/- 2 octaves, though. But it is still missing some kind of playback speed automation. Version 11 now has cross-fading audio clips on the same track. I agree the sequencer isn’t ideal, but once you’re used it, it is actually quite powerful. I recently upgraded to Reason 11 (from 10), and they’ve made some decent changes. In Reason, right click on a clip, bounce, and bam, there it is right underneath the track from which it was recorded. It actually put me off bouncing sounds because it was such a pain. It would appear right at the bottom, not grouped with the track you were recording. You had to select which tracks to record, select a range of the track, click on some menu, and bounce the selection to an audio track. no latency issues destroying all your timing across all plugins.full MPE support (you need to use workarounds in Live).no plugin GUI update issues like in Ableton (some plugins don’t update the GUIs in Live in good frequency when active).The capture function is the only function i really miss in BW (and maybe the Live options to change grid size)ĭoes it successfully combine Live’s elegance with Reason’s ability to… tinker, tweak and modulate?Īlso, I just wrote about it yesterday at another place, it just works much better in many regards, for instance:.I’m used to it and have many projects, User library files and so on.The only reasons I’m still using Live are: I own versions of all three DAWs and like BW best by far. Does it successfully combine Live’s elegance with Reason’s ability to… tinker, tweak and modulate? So I guess my question is, are my impressions of Bitwig 3 correct? I can download the demo and have a play around myself, but I’d value the opinions of people who’re familiar with it. Plus it’s stable and has a great sound engine? From what I can tell, it looks like it takes the cleanness of Ableton’s interface, while giving easy access to the kind of modulation you can get in Reason if you’re prepared to badger about with CV routing and signal splitters. I had a few methods for turning that into tracks, but that first step of breaking out was always the hardest.Īnd now Bitwig has caught my eye. And mixing/eq didn’t feel as natural as Live.Ībleton Live’s workflow was a lot better for me, and the Session View was brilliant for getting ideas down and jamming stuff, but tended to leave me stuck in an 8/16 bar loop. The complete separation of rack and song view is kinda jarring. I adore Reason 10 for its modularity and sound design capability (by gawd the sound design is so good), but I just can’t get to grips with the workflow for making an actual – you know – track. A couple of years ago, attempting to inspire myself with a change of tools, I sold my Ableton licence and Push to buy Reason 10.
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